1900 – 1925
1900 02/07 Graf Zeppelin takes off in his first airship.
1903 17/12 Wright brothers first flight.
1907 13/11 Poul Cornu completes the first free flight in a helicopter.
1909 25/07 Louis Blériot in the Blériot XI, becomes the first to cross the english channel.
1918 21/04 Manfred Von Richthofen (the Red Baron) is killed in battle in his red Fokker Dr.1.
1926 – 1950
1927 20/05 – 21/05 Charles Lindenberg becomes the first who crosses the Atlantic ocean flying solo in his “Spirit of St.Louis”.
1935 28/03 PBY Catalina first flight.
1935 28/05 Me-109 first flight.
1935 28/07 B-17 Flying Fortress first flight.
1935 17/12 DC-3 Dakota first flight.
1936 05/03 Supermarine Spitfire first flight.
1937 06/05 The airship LZ-129 Hindenburg crashes and burn in Lakenhurst, New Jersey.
1939 27/08 The worlds first jetplane: Heinkel He 178.
1940 13/05 First successfull helicopter, Igor Sikorskys VS-300.
1940 26/10 North American P-51 Mustang first flight.
1947 14/10 Charles Yeager breaks the soundbarrier.
1951 – 1975
1952 15/04 Boeing B-52 Stratofortress first flight.
1953 01/08 U-2 first flight.
1954 28/02 Lockheed F-104 Starfighter first flight.
1954 23/08 C-130 Hercules first flight.
1955 25/10 Saab 35 Draken first flight.
1956 09/01 MIG-21 Fishbed first flight.
1957 04/10 Sputnik.
1958 27/05 F-4 Phantom first flight.
1959 08/06 X-15 first flight.
1960 07/05 Gary Powers is shot down in his U-2 over the Sovietunion.
1960 21/10 P.1127 Harrier first flight.
1961 12/04 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.
1961 16/08 BellUH-1 Iroquois first flight.
1964 21/12 General Dynamics F-111A first flight.
1964 22/12 SR-71 Blackbird first flight.
1967 05 Bell AH-1 Huey Cobra first flight.
1969 09/02 Boeing 747 (Jumbojet) first flight.
1969 02/03 Concorde first flight.
1969 21/07 Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon.
1969 19/11 Mi-24 Hind first flight.
1974 20/01 F-16 Fighting Falcon first flight.
1976 – 2000
1981 12/04 First launch of spaceshuttle Columbia.
1981 15/06 F-117 Nighthawk first flight.
1989 17/07 B-2A Spirit first flight.
1994 27/03 Eurofighter 2000 Typhoon first flight.
2000 16/12 X-35 Joint Strike fighter first flight.
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